A Therapeutic Middle East Versus A Tragic One

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Classical diplomacy warns leaders to be neither obsequious and appeasing abroad, nor gratuitously boastful and hard-headed. The usual advice is don’t-tread-on-me resoluteness, or what Teddy Roosevelt characterized as “speak softly and carry a big stick.” The alternatives – whether “speak loudly and carry a twig,” “speak softly and carry a

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VDH UltraMiddle Eastern Mysteries

Victor Davis Hanson Try to fathom the following unimaginable: 1) Why do Middle Eastern terrorists when committing murder and mayhem dress in casual civilian clothes, but when there is no danger their “commanders” usually for photo-ops outfit themselves in fatigues? Should it not be reversed: the killers wear uniforms, and their “civilian” overseers do not?

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An Interview with Governor DeSantis

Victor Davis Hanson has an engaging and thought-provoking one-on-one conversation with Florida Governor and 2024 GOP Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. Victor and Governor DeSantis discuss the Governor’s response to the Hamas attack on Israel, what actions he’s taken to help Americans in Israel evacuate and return the U.S., the steps DeSantis has taken to ban

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Premodern Diversity Vs. Civilizational Unity

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Few Romans in the late decades of their 5th-century AD empire celebrated their newfound “diversity” of marauding Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals. These tribes en masse had crossed the unsecured Rhine and Danube borders to harvest Roman bounty without a care about what had created it. Their agendas were

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VDH UltraOur Elite Amoralists

Victor Davis Hanson Octogenarian and ex-congressman, former White House Chief of Staff, and CIA Director (no less), Leon Panetta was just interviewed by Fox News’s Bret Baier. He was asked whether he had any regrets about his participation in the now infamous “51 intelligence authorities” letter that helped warp the 2020 campaign. Panetta said none

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